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This is the homepage of DotNetRecipes.com, a developer education site by George Rios that publishes C# and .NET tutorials as step-by-step code recipes. Each recipe follows a structured format: Problem, Ingredients (NuGet packages/tools), Preparation (setup), The Code (working examples), and Plating (summary and best practices).

Latest Recipes Featured on This Page

This page currently features 7 of the most recently published recipes:

• "Tailwind CSS Without Node.js: Zero-Config Styling with Noundry Tailbreeze" — Skip the Node.js toolchain entirely. Tailbreeze brings Tailwind CSS v4 to ASP.NET Core with two lines of C# — auto-downloads the CLI, watches your files, and compiles production CSS at build time. (Category: ASP.NET Core, Difficulty: Beginner, Prep time: 10 mins) — Read at: https://dotnetrecipes.com/recipe/tailwind-css-without-nodejs-zero-config-styling-with-noundry-tailbreeze
• "Database-as-Code: Attribute-Driven Schema Management with Tuxedo ORM and Bowtie Migrations" — Stop writing SQL DDL by hand. Learn how to define your entire database schema through C# attributes, auto-migrate with Bowtie, and write production-grade data access with Tuxedo ORM — all without Entity Framework. (Category: Tuxedo ORM, Difficulty: Advanced, Prep time: 30 min) — Read at: https://dotnetrecipes.com/recipe/database-as-code-attribute-driven-schema-management-with-tuxedo-orm-and-bowtie-migrations
• "50K Messages Per Second: Event Streaming with Noundry Streams" — Build a high-performance event streaming pipeline that ingests 50K+ messages per second using System.Threading.Channels, SQLite WAL mode, and intelligent relay workers — all in a single .NET process with zero external infrastructure. (Category: Performance, Difficulty: Advanced, Prep time: 1 hour) — Read at: https://dotnetrecipes.com/recipe/50k-messages-per-second-event-streaming-with-noundry-streams
• "Never Miss a Failed Cron Job: Heartbeat Monitoring with Jobably" — Your scheduled jobs run silently in the dark. When one fails or stops firing, nobody knows until it is too late. Jobably watches for missed heartbeats and alerts you the moment a job goes silent. Learn how to integrate heartbeat monitoring into any .NET project with the Noundry.Jobs client library. (Category: DevOps, Difficulty: Beginner, Prep time: 10 mins) — Read at: https://dotnetrecipes.com/recipe/never-miss-a-failed-cron-job-heartbeat-monitoring-with-jobably
• "OAuth 2.0 in Minutes: Social Login with Noundry Authnz" — Add Google and GitHub social login to your ASP.NET Core Razor Pages app in minutes using Noundry Authnz. Zero session state, PKCE by default, and cookie-based claims — the way stateless auth should be. (Category: Security, Difficulty: Intermediate, Prep time: 20 mins) — Read at: https://dotnetrecipes.com/recipe/oauth-20-in-minutes-social-login-with-noundry-authnz
• "Self-Hosted APM for .NET with Noundry Sentinel" — Ship your own Application Performance Monitoring stack with Noundry Sentinel. Capture runtime metrics, track exceptions with full HTTP context, monitor database queries, aggregate structured logs via Serilog, and configure email plus webhook alerts — all without sending a single byte to a third-party cloud. (Category: DevOps, Difficulty: Intermediate, Prep time: 30 mins) — Read at: https://dotnetrecipes.com/recipe/self-hosted-apm-for-net-with-noundry-sentinel
• "Lightning-Fast CSV Imports with Noundry Slurp" — Import a million-row CSV into PostgreSQL in seconds. Slurp handles schema inference, type detection, bulk inserts, and intelligent indexing — from the CLI or your C# code. (Category: Performance, Difficulty: Beginner, Prep time: 10 mins) — Read at: https://dotnetrecipes.com/recipe/lightning-fast-csv-imports-with-noundry-slurp

Categories Available

The site organizes recipes into 7 categories:

• ASP.NET Core — 2 recipes — Browse at: https://dotnetrecipes.com/category/aspnet-core
• Tuxedo ORM — 1 recipes — Browse at: https://dotnetrecipes.com/category/tuxedo-orm
• Minimal APIs — 0 recipes — Browse at: https://dotnetrecipes.com/category/minimal-apis
• Testing — 0 recipes — Browse at: https://dotnetrecipes.com/category/testing
• Performance — 2 recipes — Browse at: https://dotnetrecipes.com/category/performance
• Security — 3 recipes — Browse at: https://dotnetrecipes.com/category/security
• DevOps — 5 recipes — Browse at: https://dotnetrecipes.com/category/devops

Site Statistics

Total published recipes: 13. Total article views: 7841.

Author

All recipes are written by George Rios, a .NET architect with 25+ years of enterprise C# experience and creator of the Noundry platform (https://noundry.com). George specializes in cloud-agnostic .NET architecture and building developer tools.

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